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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
Frontal bossing is a well-recognized aesthetic skull deformity that can present in various forms. It manifests as a prominent forehead or an overall convex forehead shape, often accentuated by a high or receded frontal hairline. In many cases, the increased distance between the eyebrows and the hairline amplifies the appearance of the forehead prominence. Anatomy Read More…
Understanding Scaphocephaly Scaphocephaly refers to a narrow head shape. In its most severe form—sagittal craniosynostosis—the head appears both very narrow and elongated due to premature closure of the sagittal suture. This medical condition is typically treated with early cranial vault remodeling surgery. However, most cases of scaphocephalic head shape are mild, purely aesthetic, and occur Read More…
Background: The occipital knob is a natural spike of bone on the visible end of the bony back of the head. Why it gets more visible in some people is not known although it appears to be more gender specific as I have seen it in many men but never yet in a woman. This Read More…
The occipital knob is a well known aesthetic skull deformity which falls into the category of more minor aesthetic skull reshaping surgery. It is easily recognizable as a midline protrusion on the back of the head at the lower end of the visible occipital bone. While it presents with varying degrees of severity it always Read More…
Background: While the back of the head as an aesthetic unit is a single skull surface the bones that make it upon are not. The back of the head is comprised of the paired upper parietal bones and inferiorly by the single occipital bone. They are merged together by the inverted Y suture lines. As Read More…
Background: The definitive method for aesthetic skull augmentation is a custom implant design. Not only is the method of implant design important, but also the material of which the implant is made. Unless the patient wants a long bicoronal scalp incision to place the implant, the implant material must be solid, but flexible. This is Read More…
Background: Custom skull implants are typically used for correcting various skull contour deficiences and often have some appreciable soze and thicknesses. While creating a smooth contour change is a necessary part of that typical form of augmentation it is not usually the sole reason for the patient to undergo the procedure. But custom skull implants Read More…
Background: Augmentations of various areas of the skull can be successfully done for a wide variety of head shape deficiencies. Such aesthetic skull implants work because of the good vascularity of the scalp and skull bone, the ability of the scalp to stretch to accommodate the underlying bone expansion and the use of custom implant Read More…
Case Study: Plagiocephaly is one of the most recognized abnormality of the skull in adults and one of the more common seen. While it often has a more complete craniofacial effect its most significant deformation affects the back of the head. The severity of the flatness that occurs on the back of the head is Read More…
Aesthetic skull augmentations today are most effectively done by a custom skull implant design. Gone are the days of the use of PMMA bone cements, which may be fine as an inlay method for skull bone defects which is their history. But PMMA bone cements is not a highly effective method as an onlay contouring Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...